Richard Austin Freeman: 14 books
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Richard Austin Freeman (1862- 1943) — known as R. Austin Freeman — was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. He claimed to have invented the inverted detective story (a crime fiction in which the commission of the crime is...
by Richard Austin Freeman, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The pioneering creator of the inverted detective story, R. Austin Freeman was a popular Edwardian author of novels and short stories featuring Dr. Thorndyke, a pathologist-detective. Well-liked by readers of Sherlock Holmes, Freeman’s detective and mystery tales offered an innovative approach to the...
by Richard Austin Freeman, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The pioneering creator of the inverted detective story, R. Austin Freeman was a popular Edwardian author of novels and short stories featuring Dr. Thorndyke, a pathologist-detective. Well-liked by readers of Sherlock Holmes, Freeman’s detective and mystery tales offered an innovative approach to the...
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
As a Thief in the Night is one of Freeman's novels of crime and mystery. The first story featuring his well-known protagonist Dr. Thorndyke - a medico-legal forensic investigator - was published in 1907, and although Freeman's early works were seen as simple homages to his contemporary, Sir Arthur...
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
THERE is no difficulty whatever in deciding upon the exact moment at which to open this history. Into some lives the fateful and significant creep by degrees, unnoticed till by the development of their consequences the mind is aroused and memory is set, like a sleuth-hound, to retrace the course of...
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
With this story we are at the beginnings of the literature on the scientific police investigations. This ebook is an extract from "John Thorndyke's Cases", published in 1909, which collects some of best Dr. Thorndyke's crime investigations. This edition contains the original illustrations...
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 1898, this is an account of a journey from Gold Coast to Bontukmu by a medical officer. He describes the journey and the interior, makes observations on dress, the prevalance of malaria, and commerce in the area.
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
“WELL,” said my friend Foxton, pursuing a familiar and apparently inexhaustible topic, “I’d sooner have your job than my own.” “I’ve no doubt you would,” was my unsympathetic reply. “I never met a man who wouldn’t. We all tend to consider other men’s jobs in terms of their advantages...
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
‘So,’ said Thorndyke, looking at me reflectively, ‘you are a full— blown medical practitioner with a practice of your own. How the years slip by! It seems but the other day that you were a student, gaping at me from the front bench of the lecture theatre.’ ‘Did I gape?’ I asked incredulously....
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
As a collection of human oddments, the National Gallery on copying day surpasses even the Reading Room of the British Museum, and almost equals the House of Commons. The spectacle that it afforded was a source of perennial interest to Mr. Joseph Fittleworth, as were also the productions of the professional...
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
It is not without some misgivings that I at length make public the strange history communicated to me by my lamented friend Humphrey Challoner. The outlook of the narrator is so evidently abnormal, his ethical standards are so remote from those ordinarily current, that the chronicle of his life and...
by Richard Austin Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
ON a pleasant, sunny afternoon near the end of May, when the late spring was just merging into early summer, Mr. Thomas Pedley (Tom Pedley to his friends, or more usually plain Tom) was seated on a substantial sketching stool before a light bamboo easel on which was fixed an upright canvas measuring...
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880+ True Crime Stories, Action Thrillers, Whodunit Mysteries & Supernatural Mysteries: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Thorndyke Cases, Bulldog Drummond, Detective Standish, Martin Hewitt, Max Carrados…
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
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Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...